Courtroom showdown for Microsoft and Google
C|Net | at | by Mike
Attorneys for Microsoft and Google faced off before a state court judge here Tuesday, arguing whether former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee should be allowed to start work for the search company before a trial determines whether he violated a noncompete contract.
Microsoft's lawyer, Jeffrey Johnson added that Lee's efforts to help Google began while he was a vice president at Microsoft and still on the company's payroll. That included helping Google with recruitment and advising the search giant on job candidates, and forwarding to Google executives a Microsoft paper that discussed Redmond's China strategy.